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Without leaving comfortable Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, Physicist J. F. Nye took a crack at a new kind of Arctic exploration. Using the integrations of abstruse equations, he ranged over Greenland's great icecap, checking the observations of scientists who had made the trip in person. In Nature magazine, Dr. Nye reports his findings. Greenland, he concludes, is probably a mountain range rising from the sea, surrounding a vast, frozen, inland lake...
...assistant program is open only to U.S. citizens who will "benefit directly from the experience" in present college work or in future careers. The Navy Task Group which will transport the students to remote regions of Canada and Greenland will leave Boston on June 15 and return around September...
...Workers recruited in the U.S. and taken to Greenland to build the base at Thule (on the island's far northwestern rim, some 650 miles above the Arctic Circle) were paid $3,000,000 in wages before they reached the site...
...firms to straighten things out; the job will be cornpleted "in an efficient manner." Considering the Air Force's hurry-up order for the bases and remoteness of the sites, a pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon and hopes it doesn...
...Michigan mine operator, Carlson is a first-rate geologist who has taught at the University of Michigan, knows Eskimo, and is a veteran of two major expeditions to Greenland. In 1937 he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, served as professor and director of admissions until World War II called him to Washington. Finally, after three years as a top consultant on Arctic affairs, ex-Colonel Carlson was ready for a presidency-first at the University of Delaware, then at Vermont...